From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Ryde Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: 1+ and 1- in C Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 09:30:03 +1000 Message-ID: <873btyus5g.fsf@zip.com.au> References: <87is2uuvj7.fsf@zip.com.au> <200504101529.19592.bruce.korb@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1113175797 5611 80.91.229.2 (10 Apr 2005 23:29:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 23:29:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 11 01:29:57 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DKls9-0001Cz-AG for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Apr 2005 01:29:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DKlS8-00036C-Lh for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 19:02:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DKlQU-0002ft-Aq for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 19:01:10 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DKlQN-0002bi-3r for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 19:01:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DKlQM-0002b6-Or for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 19:01:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [61.8.0.84] (helo=mailout1.pacific.net.au) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DKlu2-0008SM-4H for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 19:31:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mailproxy2.pacific.net.au (mailproxy2.pacific.net.au [61.8.0.87]) by mailout1.pacific.net.au (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian-7.1) with ESMTP id j3ANU8Ju014373; Mon, 11 Apr 2005 09:30:08 +1000 Original-Received: from localhost (ppp2445.dyn.pacific.net.au [61.8.36.69]) by mailproxy2.pacific.net.au (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian-7.1) with ESMTP id j3ANU70H028463; Mon, 11 Apr 2005 09:30:07 +1000 Original-Received: from gg by localhost with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1DKlsR-000517-00; Mon, 11 Apr 2005 09:30:03 +1000 Original-To: Bruce Korb Mail-Copies-To: never In-Reply-To: <200504101529.19592.bruce.korb@gmail.com> (Bruce Korb's message of "Sun, 10 Apr 2005 15:29:19 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:4897 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:4897 Bruce Korb writes: > > Shouldn't the name for the subtraction code be ``less one'' The C name? That can be anything. > or the alias be ``-1+'' I guess that was r2rs, or something. It's gone in 1.8. I'm only looking at moving a bit of what's already in boot-9. Personally I quite like 1-. > You are decrementing, yes? Yep. _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel